2009 | SAF

SAF 2009

Roots of Nationhood: the Archaeology & History of Scotland

Scottish Archaeological Forum Conference

28- 29 November 2009 at the University of Glasgow

Keynote address:

Professor Ian Ralston,

(University of Edinburgh)

Session Chairs:

Professor Julian Thomas (University of Manchester)

Professor Dauvit Broun

(University of Glasgow)

Dr Sîan Jones

(University of Manchester)

Dr Simon James

(University of Leicester)

An interdisciplinary two-day conference at the Western Infirmary Lecture Theatre (WILT), University of Glasgow, 28 – 29 November 2009. As Scotland celebrates the Homecoming in 2009, we can expect to see many claims made on Scotland’s archaeology and history in support of discourses of national identity and distinctiveness. In the fifteen years since the Scottish Archaeological Forum debated the subject of Archaeology and Nationalism, how have accounts of Scotland’s past informed the ongoing political debate over devolution and independence? Does archaeology reveal the roots of nationhood or are other themes of diversity, discontinuity and far-flung connections and allegiances just as compelling?

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